Pictures: Connecticut & The Iraq Conflict

Rick Hartford | Hartford Courant

Sean O'Brien, a sophomore and English major at the University of Connnecticut at Storrs, reads an anti-war poem at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the university, part of a nationwide Poets Against the War effort to speak out against the potential war on Iraq.

Sean O'Brien, a sophomore and English major at the University of Connnecticut at Storrs, reads an anti-war poem at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the university, part of a nationwide Poets Against the War effort to speak out against the potential war on Iraq. (Rick Hartford | Hartford Courant)

On March 20, 2003, the United States entered an eight year conflict with the Republic of Iraq, setting the precedent of modern American combat for the better part of a decade. Operation Iraqi Freedom affected the lives of countless Americans, including many from Connecticut. Here is a gallery of moments in Connecticut relating to the Iraq War.